Monty 0.98 is a scripting language that is first compiled into Monty byte codes (Just like Python). It relies on a unique stack, with specific instructions to manipulate it. The goal of this project is to create an interpreter for Monty ByteCodes files.
Files containing Monty byte codes usually have the .m extension. Most of the industry uses this standard but it is not required by the specification of the language. There is not more than one instruction per line. There can be any number of spaces before or after the opcode and its argument:
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS via Vagrant in VirtualBox and compiled with GCC version 4.8.4
What I learned from this project:
- What LIFO and FIFO meant
- What a stack was, and when to use it
- What a queue was, and when to use it
- What the common implementations of stacks and queues were
- What the most common use cases of stacks and queues were
- What the proper way to use global variables was
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Compiling the program:
gcc -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic *.c -o monty
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File Monty:
julien@ubuntu:~/monty$ cat -e bytecodes/000.m
push 0$
push 1$
push 2$
push 3$
pall $
push 4$
push 5 $
push 6 $
pall$
julien@ubuntu:~/monty$
- Struct:
/**
* struct instruction_s - opcode and its function
* @opcode: the opcode
* @f: function to handle the opcode
*
* Description: opcode and its function
* for stack, queues, LIFO, FIFO Holberton project
*/
typedef struct instruction_s
{
char *opcode;
void (*f)(stack_t **stack, unsigned int line_number);
} instruction_t;
vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~/monty$ cat bytecodes/00.m
push 1
push 2
push 3
pall
vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~/monty$ gcc -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic *.c -o monty -g
vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~/monty$ ./monty bytecodes/00.m
3
2
1
vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~/monty$